Is it a joke about EV charging in Europe? Like there are super duper chargers for super advanced car batteries and rather good coal and nuclear plants but no good network between them?

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't think so, also electric chargers of varying quality are super ubiquitous in Europe.

My little Eastern European hometown of 20k people has two stations of 8 plugs each.

[–] Greg@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I agree with your point, but I also assume it’s a not a supercharger-grade? Like in China they have quite often supercharger-grade in cities practically everywhere and prices per kilowatt are no different from slow-charging (like 22kW). While in Europe I noticed that price for kWh is different based on charger’s capacity.

[–] cynar@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

It's less based on the capacity, and more on how much time is likely a premium.

E.g. motorway services are more expensive, since people need the power and want to get back on the road. It's exactly the same logic as the price of petrol there.

[–] Greg@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 13 hours ago

Makes sense! Thank you!

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

One of the two is actually a Tesla supercharger

[–] Greg@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 13 hours ago

Awesome! Thanks!